Build Outs Of Summer: Pinhole Coffee In San Francisco

I’m passionate about historic preservation. This space will have many odes to ol’ San Francisco and ol’ Bernal Heights. I went to our Main Public Library where on the 6th Floor there is a pretty extensive historical library on all the different neighborhoods and districts. I read the whole file on Bernal. Apparently at the intersection of my space there use to be a turn switch for the trolleys that used to travel in that direction. There is an artist, Brian Goggin , who did a collection of sidewalk portal cover art called “Substrata.” One piece called “Switch,” located at Mission and Cortland, nods to our Cortland and Bonview intersection. From 1940-2005, SF used tokens for public transportation–they discontinued it after folks started hoarding them when fares started to go up (tokens were like forever stamps). I acquired a few of them and plan to embed them in my space to...